[rtrivedi]

The data comes from http://medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

It has a pretty good amount of useful data if you're interested in searching around :).

To answer your second question: I'm not. For the V1 of the app, I'm relying on the government data being valid. However, I'm currently building an in-app feedback form that will allow users to (a) report real-time wait times if they are in the hospital, and (b) report closed ERs / incorrect addresses etc.

[skram]

rtrivedi - do you have an email I can reach you on? I work for the company that helps Medicare.gov (and a lot of other govt agencies) publish their data online in machine readable formats and I'd love to get feedback from you and understand how you're using the data and potentially make the data publishers aware of this use case as well. You can reach me at [e-mail] if you prefer not to post your email publicly.

Great job!